A Fairy Album

Hello Bloggers

This little book was started using Shades of Green Book Papers.  Then a set of the Fairy B&W Cut & Create Papers was put on the craft table & looked irresistible to play with. 

Originally they were there for a card but who can resist a mini book with no embellishing.

The result is a video of the pages:  

A Fairy Book

Products used

Printed & Digital Book or 

Mini Album papers:

Shades of Green Paper Collection

Ivory & Sage green cardstock, Vellum

Fairy Cut & Create B&W Papers

Butterfly Transparency

Fairy Transparency

Paper flowers - wild rose, puffy flowers, 

mini blooms, sm roses, daisy, mini rosebuds,

sm roses, apple blossom, green leaves.

Laces, ribbons, vintage trinkets & charms, pins of jewels 

Dies - fairy m3135, elegant lines m242, 

waterfall 1 m376, curls & flourishes m304

Silver sparkle Nail Polish

Cotton balls to sit behind curved butterflies

The paper on the cover was from my stash from Thailand

Hope this gives you some ideas.

Other Notes:

The silver nail polish was in the sale bin at the chemist for $2.95 - I had tried all the other sparkles things I had & none of them worked the way I wanted. Will it work?? Yes, it did!! & what a great price.  Now I have to find a gold one.

The nail polish was used on vellum, cardstock, charms & paper flowers & leaves. Also on some of the Fairy Cut & Create images.  A very thin layer added the right amount of sparkle, while a thicker layer was needed on the charms

Never stop thinking outside the box.

The Fairy on the cover & the paper butterflies on other pages were molded & rounded over my thumb.  I then glued 1/2 a cotton ball underneath to keep them rounded.

Pins of Jewels were used as Fairy Wands

Bye for now
Meg

Working on Sherlock III - A New Case

BLUE BUTTERFLY BOOK

hello friends, 

Today I'm sharing my little book created with

'In a Watercolour Garden'

from MEGS GARDEN

I enjoy making these as gifts 

I loved the soft hues of the blues, 

the uplifting words & butterflies.

FRONT COVER

I Sketched around the butterfly & flowers & adhered blue beads to the wings & flowers

a metal embellishment is highlighted with Blue INKA GOLD

and the journal is tied with a soft blue crystal organza ribbon

INSIDE FRONT COVER

A chipboard butterfly added to the printed paper 

makes the frame pop ( it almost looks 3D)

PAGE #1

PAGE#2 

PAGE #3

PAGE #4

PAGE #5

PAGE #6

I hope you have been inspired by these gorgeous papers

& make little book to give joy to the recipient,

whilst here on the blog please accept an invitation to scroll through & see the beautiful creations from the GARDEN GIRLS.

PRODUCTS from MEGS GARDEN:

In a Watercolour Garden papers & ephemera

Blue Bonnet fabric & paper flowers

Rosebuds

Temptation in Blue bundle

 all other product is from my personal stash

Happy Scrapping

Hugz Annette x 

White Flowers on Green paper collection - a special for the Shabby Chicers

A special hello to all Shabby Chicers
 We have a NEW COLLECTION
of 18 papers that I know you will love:

 

White Flowers on Green

Butterflies, Flowers, Words, Laces, Flourishes & more...

Papers 1-6

Papers 7-12

    Ephemera in all the shades to embellish...

Tags, Tickets, Frames, Flourishes, Posies, Vintage Ladies, Butterflies...

Preview all papers  at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLQqv-hsAPM

Available Printed A4 or Digital Download 

18 papers 8.3x11", 300dpi, JPEG

12 patterned papers & 6 full of ephemera

The papers are available in a full A4 size or smaller that have been

 designed for Mini Books with a page of 5x7"

Perfect for ALL Papercraft ART - cards, scrapbook, mini albums

For More Info  What's New

More Info on Digitals  I must have these digital papers

More info on Printed    I must have these printed papers

Attention Aussie Paper Artists - join the Design Team & you can start 

playing with these papers - email me for details

Bye for now

Meg

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Sherlock Journal Vol. II mini album

Hello Bloggers

I'm not usually fond of grunge creating so it was with some concern that I took the latest paper collection -Sherlock Journal Vol. II - to my craft table.  I am much more comfortable with shabby chic - grab some ribbons, flowers, lace & pearls & have fun.

But I have had many requests for some more Sherlock so here is my attempt.

The paper collection pages are each 5x7.5".  I used black cardstock for all pages including the cover & spine.  You could also use kraft, cream, grey or dark brown depending on the look you want to achieve or your style of art.

The individual black cardstock pages for the inside of the journal are 10.5x7.5" with a 2/8 " gusset down the centre of each one.  The individual pages were cut since I wanted to do embellishing & have many pockets for journaling, photos & embellishing.  The 2.8" gusset was glued to the inside of the spine so that the pages would lie flat.

Using this style of page I then had 4 pages on each one - front, back & the 2 insides.

The cover is 6x8" with a 3" spine - chipboard for all 3 pieces & then covered with black cardstock - if you want to cover the corners you will need to add to this measurement. 

The front cover has kraft cardstock & one of the paper covers - both are distressed & torn.

Embellishments include vintage filigree corners, a knob, & a key tied to the knob with jute twine.  The other embellishments are from the ephemera papers attached with foam tape.

Inside the cover - a piece of the other cover paper.  Front of page 1:  The post card is attached on 1 side only so that pics, notes etc can be inserted.

Inside page 1: - ephemera from the sheets, vintage trinkets, a clock charm & tags tucked behind the 'ART' ephemera.  The majority of the ephemera were backed with black cardstock.

Back of page 1:- pocket for lined pages of journaling, tag for interest.
Front of page 2 is 1 of what I called 1 of the alternate pages.

Inside page 2 - more ephemera.
On the back of page 2 & front of page 3 there are pockets again for journaling papers.

Inside page 3: more ephemera , the vintage envelope is slit to allow insertion of papers, docs or pics. More charms & a key on key chain tucked into mini paper clip.  Thanks to Annette for the idea of slitting the envelope

Back of page 3 is a pocket for journaling pages attched with the same clip; the front of page 4 is decorated simply & both pages have vintage trinkets.

Inside of page 3:  the cabinet card opens to show a pic of a vintage gentleman; more vintage trinkets & some cream mesh ribbon to lightly soften the page

Back of page 3: ephemera distressed.  Front of page 4:  more journaling pages.

Inside page 4: ephemera

Back of page 4; ephemera distressed & attached with foam tape
Front of page 5: journaling pages

Inside page 5: more tags & another slit envelope

Back of page 5 - ephemera
Front of page 6; this page opens us with the faux lock

Inside the page is a journaling sheet - the other side opens to the following:

Both sides have journaling, the middle has simple ephemera & a tag

Back of page 6 is the other alternate page - the alternate pages could also be used on the front or back  covers of the journal 

The back cover of the journal: the other piece of the cover paper - distressed, torn & decorated with more ephemera, a vintage trinket with a clock charm

The spine of the journal: Covered with mesh ribbon & from a hardware charm hangs a key on jute twine & a little bottle of seed beads. A vintage trinket has a cream/gold tassle - a touch of elegance.

The video shows the slides:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DfQD3fCpoE

To be honest, I actually enjoyed making the mini album - it was a great exercise to see how the collection of papers & ephemera flowed together. 

  

Sherlock Journal Vol. III is definitely on the drawing board for mid year.

Bye for now 

Meg

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Sheds of Hahndorf using Vintage Journal Collection

Hello Bloggers

I have always been a City girl. When I moved to Hahndorf in 2009, I was in awe of the old buildings here (old for AU).  The heritage houses on the Main St have been registered as Heritage & have lots written about them.

What caught my attention were the old sheds, outbuildings & 'dunnies' that had been ignored. The one shed that sparked my interest is one that I walked past almost every day - the sheds next to Pioneer Park in the yard of Haebich's Old Smithy from 1839.

My camera has caught many of them since 2010;  my idea to create a book started in the classroom of the original Charlotte's web - so I dedicate this book to Charlotte - hope you see it.  I collected rusty nails pulled from old posts, bark from gum trees & seed pods & finally decided I had the right papers for it in the Vintage Journal Collection.

This is my book:

Cover

the book has a double cover - this is the inner cover & right spine

book open showing inside of front cover  on the left, all pages attached to second spine, inside the other spine from pic  #1 & inside second cover

the original school from 1854 & a german wagon in front of the old mill - both these pages open out

each section of the pages has many pages which fold in

this is a pic of Haebich's old smithy on the left & the shed which inspired me on the right - they also open out to show more

a classic dunny facing away from the cottage - this is behind No.90 The White House

another dunny & also old shed with ladder to get into the top

Hahndorf also has old barnhouses - this is the 'best' - man & animals were housed under one roof until time & money were available to build a house

must also add some fab garages

No 7 Pine Ave was built for one of the 1st surgeons in Hahndorf - it is currently for sale but needs lots of restoration.  I was intrigued by the sheds in the back of it

this is the original stone stables at 7 Pine Ave

inside of second cover

top view of book

pic of pages

These are only some of the pics that I took - the slide video shows them all

https://youtu.be/_xrbW5hUJr8

The style of the book is loosely based on a video from Xannero1 called Ladies Diary Journal Workbook - thanks Annie - had to modify your method a little since I needed lot of pages.

Hope you enjoy my book - I had a lot of fun making it.

Bye for now

Meg

www.megsgarden.com

Vintage Journal Collection

Like from Attic..Part 1

Hi my lovely artistic friends,

  I've got small poem ;-)...

    Blue is the color of blueberry pie,
   A blue jay's feather and the bright moon sky.
   Blue is the color of ocean scenes,
   Picasso's art and my favorite jeans.

...yes "blue" is the major point of new,breathtaking collection "Watercolour in Blues" from Meg's Garden shop. I adore blue color and together with brown is most amazing and eye catching mix I thing. Therefore I couldn't resist start make my new project in this way.I can say that is something I never made before and I really hope you will like it as I do ;-) ...

...as this is "part 1" I will show you just a part of final project,but I have small photo tutorial for you, so hopefully you will enjoy create from this beautiful collection as I did.

  Here is my small tutorial for very easy and beautiful tag...

...when your embellishment will be ready glue it on a tag and start decorate with flowers & leaves..

..on the left underside of flowers stick small bow with rose in a middle...

...don't forget decorate left top corner with small pearls..

One more project belong to this "part 1".I don't have a tutorial for this but I will explain more in video which will be post in "part 2" of my project ;-)

 I hope you found some inspiration to create with Watercolour in Blues collection ;-)

If I can give you small tip, go pop up to Meg's Garden Blog check out amazing creations from Meg's girls.So many inspirations waiting there for you.

  It's all from me for today.Thank you so much for stopping by.

Have a wonderful time.

Hugs Eva xx